Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church
Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Springfield, OH 45505. It is one of 185 churches in Springfield, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
Springfield, OH, 45505Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 64.1% (45.9–80.4%)
- Obesity: 52.0%
- Poverty Rate: 39.6% (25.7–53.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 19.0% (8.0–29.9%)
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Depression: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (4.8–18.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 67 churches — about one congregation for every 991 residents.
Churches near Clifton Avenue United Methodist Church
- Fair Street Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- South Fountain Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Faith Center — 0.3 mi away
- New North Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Jesus Family Worship — 0.4 mi away
- Universal Hagar Spiritual Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Open Bible — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- New North Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- High Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away